FCC Bureau OKs NECA's Proposed High-Cost Loop Support Formula Changes
FCC staff approved the National Exchange Carrier Association's proposals to modify NECA's annual "average schedule company" high-cost loop support (HCLS) formula. "The Commission’s rules require that this formula ‘simulate the disbursements that would be received . . . by a…
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company that is representative of average schedule companies,’” the Wireline Bureau said in an order posted Friday in docket 05-337: "NECA’s results and CPL [cost per loop] calculations appear to be accurate and complete, and the proposed HCLS formula should reasonably approximate the CPL of the sample average schedule companies, and thereby allocate funds appropriately to average schedule companies."